You’re twelve years old on Thanksgiving at six thirty in the morning. You’ll be leaving for Grandma’s in about a half hour, and she’s lives a three hour drive away, going in one direction. You have nothing to prepare yourself on this journey, other than a tablet running Android Eleven. Beware, the speaker is broken and there is no headphone jack. Google Play complains that the device isn’t certified or whatever, but that isn’t going to stop you from downloading apps from third party websites using the family computer. Plus, you have one great advantage: F-droid is installed and ready to rock.
You must hurry, because you wont have an internet connection once you hit the road. Quick, what apps do you install? You have 128GiB’s at your disposal.
Antistress and alchemy 2
Emulators
Super Tux Cart
Endless Sky
Solitaire
Shattered Pixel Dungeon.
Silly premise, but you have found a use for Bluetooth headphones I guess.
Anyway I probably install Librera FD for reading epubs, then go on AO3 for suitable materials.
Slightly off topic, but I absolutely hate AO3’s formatting. I much prefer fanfiction net.
Download as epub then use pandoc to convert to whatever. I’m throwback enough to prefer plain text.
2048
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
OpenTTD
Second OpenTTD - that’ll keep you busy
Bad Piggies would be pretty fun.
only half an hour
no information on the internet connection quality
Minetest I guess. Can’t trust that I can get Retroarch plus the cores and games I want on time, and it’s not worth the hassle for only 3 hrs drive.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon and/or Hoplite. Or maybe an ebook reader.
this is the way
The only games I play on my phone
Amazing Alex. Also ppsspp with Everybody’s Golf
Retroarch and tons of roms. Would set me up for quite a while.
It’s amazing what your phone can run, even better if you have a Bluetooth controller.
Fdroid
Find any offline game that works on my tablet, install as many as you can before you leave. Spend 3 hours cycling through random half good games until you find an awesome one as you arrive, play that on the way home.
A BTD game, probably BTD6 but BTD5 would do
Simon Tatham’s Puzzles
40 different puzzle games. You won’t like all of them but you’ll like plenty and they’re all super addictive so even one of them will keep you busy for a few days.
Install Aurora Store and then any free game that you want
ReadEra and a bunch of pirated ebooks from libgen. Basically the top 10 of the 3 genres I like most.
Bonus is that books are a few 100kb at most, so even with a poor internet speed I can download them in seconds, no problem.
